Last week I briefly departed from reality, thanks to the inexplicable actions of the CRTC, but this week, I’m off the drugs and back on terra firma — sort of. Anyway, to celebrate my return to the ...

Many server automation and orchestration solutions, like Puppet and Chef, rely on a mixture of solution-specific coding, Web UIs, and command-line tools to make the magic happen. Ansible is different.

With the clocks turned back and the Big Vote about to happen, I’m up for a bit of nostalgia. And nothing pleases me more than doting on some of my favorite Unix commands, aliases and “tricks”.

I was hoping that some of you who work in the industry might be willing to share some of your experiences as a UNIX systems administrator. I am still trying to figure out what to do with my life and ...

UNIX System Administration Handbook<BR>ISBN: 0-13-020601-6<P>This is the unix admins bible.<P>Also, most of the O'Reilly books on UNIX admin are well worth while.<P>You'll also want to learn perl and ...